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you; adorn yourselves with blossoms like trees in the
scented garden. Spring clouds are streaming; then turn
you fresh and verdant like the sweet eternal fields. The
dawn star is shining, set your feet on the true path. The
sea of might is swelling, hasten to the shores of high
resolve and fortune. The pure water of life is welling
up, why wear away your days in a desert of thirst? Aim
high, choose noble ends; how long this lethargy, how
long this negligence! Despair, both here and hereafter,
is all you will gain from self-indulgence; abomination
and misery are all you will harvest from fanaticism,
from believing the foolish and the mindless. The confirmations
of God are supporting you, the succor of
God is at hand: why do you not cry out and exult with
all your heart, and strive with all your soul!
Among those matters which require thorough revision
and reform is the method of studying the
various branches of knowledge and the organization
of the academic curriculum. From lack of
organization, education has become haphazard and confused.
Trifling subjects which should not call for
elaboration receive undue attention, to such an extent
that students, over long periods of time, waste their
minds and their energies on material that is pure supposition,
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